Few Children Bear Hitler's Name
Vienna reports a government survey shows Austrians avoid naming babies Adolf despite the Nazi era. Parents favor traditional names Franz Josef Leopold Karl and Hans while few girls named Karin or Edda remain common, reflecting lingering anti Nazi sentiment after 1938.
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Vienna
Adolf Hitler
Horst
Dieter
Siegfrid
Adolf
Franz
Josef
Leopold
Karl
Hans
Karin
Edda
Herman Goering
Norse Ship Books Woman Engineer
In Oslo on December 20 a Norwegian merchant ship will have its first woman engineer. Tora Skaltveit completed a two year technical program and is serving the required 15 months as a stoker in the engine room of the ship Ternefjell.
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Oslo
Norweigan
Tora Skaltveit
Ternefjell
Italian Doctors Saving Many Lives at Sea
Rome reports that the International Radio Medical Center led by Prof. Guido Guida has saved many seafarers. The Medrad network provides 40 volunteer doctors for free consultations via radio to merchant ships and coordinates hospital transfer when needed. Similar services exist in the United States Belgium Britain Sweden Norway and Argentina in the South Atlantic.
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Rome
International Radio-Medical Center
CIRM
Guido Guida
Medrad
United States
Belgium
Great Britain
Sweden
Norway
Argentina
South Atlantic
Guida
Internationalization of medicine chests on merchant ships
Prof Guida proposed expanding medical chests aboard merchant ships to enable internationalization of medicine. He noted some nations maintain restricted medicine stocks while others stock unfamiliar drugs, urging broader access and standardization to improve aboard ship care.
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Guida
Marchant
Boy Scouts in the United States count
As of November 30, 1947 there were 1,534,164 boys who were members of the Boy Scouts of America.
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United States
T.S.N. A
What is a horse’s height in hands and scout membership totals
The text cites Boy Scouts of America membership figures with 542 141 leaders and a total of 2 076 305 members across 66 743 units. It then asks what it means when a horse is described in hands. A hand is four inches. height is measured from ground to withers in multiples of hands.
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Boy Scouts of America
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